The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-11-05
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yOre.
THE streets OF Vienna are swept and
washed every morning.
PiNKEYE has made its appearance among
Battle Creek (Mich.) horses.
THE harp as a fashionable instrument
grows In favor in New York.
A FUND to keep Godsmith's grave in
order has been started in London.
TnE capacity Of the United States steel
rail factories is 3,67l, 900 tons year.
MR. GREEN and Miss Blue, both black,
are licensed to wed in LyUoming, Pa.
MIssEIizADETn PEABODY, the enthusiastic
kindergartner, is past cighty-three years
old.
The question of teaching German in tho
public schools Is under discussion in St.
Louis.
AN effort is being made to unite the coal
miners of this country into national Or
ganization.
THREE New York saloon-keepers have
been sentenced to break stone in the Jail
for selling liquor on Sunday.
A TERRIBLE disease, known as black
smallpox, is raging in parts OF Mexico,
and has crossed into Arizona.
A TURKEY which when dressed weighed
twenty four pounds is one OF the prodGc-
tions which Cole County, Mo-, brags of.
A GOLD nugget weighing 2215 ounces and
valued at $3.50 was picked UP by George
Lilies on his place claim at Atlanta, Idaho.
The latest thing in albums is the hand
and foot album, the leaves OF which
contain outlines, life size, OF the hand or
foot.
PREPARATIONS are being made in st.
Paul for the winter carnival and the work
Of frebuilding the ice palace will begin ere
long.
MERRILL (Wis.) business man bought
white COW, and after duly embellshing
her with advertisements let her run the
streets.
j. g. A. WARD has been selected as the
sculptor for the Beechcr monument, for
which a fund of S25,O00 is already SUBJ
scribed.
AN exchange says Nina Van Zandt and
George Francis Train ought to get married
and then star the country as the greatest
living fools.
The husks on Indian corn are thin. and
the golden rod was Follower than usual
This, the wcatherwise say, is Indicative
OF an open winter.
A GRANITE shaft in memory of the Con.
federate General "Jeb" Stuart is shortly
TO be erected near Yellow Tavern, Va,
where lie was killed.
A new lathe has been invented that
turns square cornered stick 10 fit the
hole made by the square bore auger, in
vented few years ago.
CnAuTAuqUA COUNTY, Kan, in which
lola is situated, has gone into cotton rails.
ing, and will ship about thirty carloads
this year. 1t is ginncd at lola.
A PENNSYLVANIA syndicate has pur.
chased 2O,0GO acres of ore lands in Walker
County, Ga, and will erect furnaces and
build Il railroad to Chattanooga.
The bitter feeling between Germany
and Russia has broken out afrcsh, and
both countries are building fortications
along their respective frontiers.
THERE are now 933 convicts in the Kansas
penitcntary. Up to the present time
large force has been employed upon the
extension of the present building.
The Kipg of Corea furnished his winter
palace with $4,000 worth of American
chairs, beds and tables. He also bought
an American steamer for S2S,000
THE U. S. Consul at Dcmerara reports
that the planters in that colony are aban- |
d1ning the English market and manufac- |
turing sugars for the United States.
AN advertisement in q Georgia paper for |
man to watch a store in Tampa Fla, |
during the yellow fever epidemic, was an.
swercd by upwards of a score of persons |
A VETERAN clockrepairer at Moodus, CT, |
has made himself coffin from chestnu'
.og, in which he wishes to be- cremated, |
becoming sort of roasted chestnut, as it |
were.
TIE Mexican Government has contract. |
sd with an American to plant 9, ,OO0, OOO trees /
I i'll the Mexican Valley. The varieties are
to be ash, poplar, acacia and mountain |
cedar.
JAMES D. FISH, ex-president of the
Marine Bank, who is now in Auburn
prison, is said to be one Of the most patient
well disciplined and uncomplaining men |
lin that institution.
MRS. JOHN JACOB Aston pays her chief |
cook $1,000 per annum, and then has to /
content herself with eating the plainest |
kind of fare. She is troubled with dys-
pcpsia in its worst form.
DR.. LucIEN HOWE says blindness is on |
the increase in the United States, and that
we now have with us fifty thousand blind.
Contagion and immigration are set down
among the chief causes.
THERE is fencing school in Broadway,
New York, that is for women only. A
small sign beside the doorway saws:
Fencing school for ladies' Gives health,
strength, beauty and grace"
The president of the Western Union Tel
egraph company announces the company's
intention to make a uniform rate of twen-
ty-five cents for ten words between any
two points in the same State.
GERMAN brass fnishcr, who commit
ted suicide in New York boarding
house, left note for the landlady, saving
that he was sorry to trouble her, but the
weather compelled him to kill himself in.
DOORS
The tower which is being erected by the
Russians on tho highest point of the
Mount OF Olives is already several stories
high, and but one more is to be added. It
Is to be so high that both the Meditcr-
ranean and Dead Sea may be seen from
the top.
RAILROAD station agent at Dunkirk.
N. Y, in his leisure time has Whitfield out
Of $50 pieces of wood perfect model of a
locomotive and tender. He was five
months at the job.
JOHN !. BLAIR, the richest man in New
Jersey, owns three railroads in Kansas.
two in Missouri, and one in Iowa. All.
though seventy-four years old, and worth
! dozen millions, he is still planning new
projects.
MRS. MAHTty of AtIanto ho, n.il - /